The Evergreen Meltdown
Evergreen’s prognosis is guarded at best, but it might explain what ails higher education in general.
Mike Paros
· 6 min read
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The Google Memo: A Counterfactual Response
An employee offers an alternative take on the notorious Google Memo.
Publius
· 4 min read
Our Search for Meaning and the Dangers of Possession
They provide deep, time-tested channels through which transpersonal energies can flow.
Lisa Marchiano
· 12 min read
Liberalism Can Succeed
The first concerns the relationship of theory to practice; the second, the relationship of liberalism to its preliberal inheritance.
Patrick Lee Miller
· 24 min read
It's Time for Evidence-Based Gender Policy
But do we really have sound evidence and trustworthy scientific sources, particularly in politically very sensitive areas like gender?
Teresa Gimenez Barbat
· 4 min read
Is Democracy Doomed?
Political scientists are now asking themselves the same question about liberal democracy that Schumpeter asked about markets
Jerrod A. Laber
· 8 min read
The Political Chimp
Chimp warfare had been studied for decades. A 2010 study of Ngogo chimps best summarizes the controversies in the field.
Elio Martino
· 7 min read
The One State Delusion
Instead of becoming a poster boy for globalism, Barcelona has been the setting for a powerful Catalan nationalist movement demanding outright independence.
Leon Hadar
· 23 min read
Fundamentalists vs The New York Times
Leftists believe liberalism is a spineless doctrine of compromise and accommodation, and that the only useful response to right-wing populism is a left-wing variant that is just as trenchant, intolerant, illiberal, and doctrinaire.
Jamie Palmer
· 14 min read
Thinking Critically About Social Justice
By identifying the distorting effects power had on society’s beliefs and values, they believed they could achieve a more accurate picture of the world.
Uri Harris
· 12 min read
Is There Any Evidence that Trigger Warnings Work?
A distinction ought to be made between best practices for trigger warnings and trigger warnings as best practice.
Harry Chu
· 7 min read
The Cultural Diversity Case for Free Speech
Speech codes often claim to protect ‘cultural diversity’ on campuses, but they often do the reverse.
Geoffrey Miller
· 15 min read
The Diversity Ideology
The diversity ideology’s adherents are laudable – to encourage tolerance and a respectful understanding of the different perspectives each community offers.
Evan Osborne
· 6 min read
The Problem With Poland’s New Holocaust Law
This process of historical compression informs much of the debate about Poland’s new law.
John A. Litwinski
· 5 min read
The Real Gender Trouble
Although they don’t usually acknowledge it, transgender activists make philosophical claims, which are susceptible to philosophical critique.
Spencer Case
· 12 min read